Nineteenth-Century Afro-Brazilian Atlantic Intellectuals

Untold Histories of the Atlantic World · Nov 4, 2026 · 21m

In this episode, Maria Eduarda Abreu Cavalcante joins me to discuss Afro-Brazilian intellectual history during the nineteenth century. Maria is a Ph.D. student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she is a Fulbright Doctoral Dissertation Award scholar specializing in nineteenth-century Brazilian history. Maria’s research explores the lives, ideas, and networks of Black intellectuals across the nineteenth-century Atlantic world, drawing on comparative and relational approaches to examine the intertwined histories of slavery and freedom in Brazil, the United States, and Latin America more…